Lesson 46 Amplified – PROSEUCHE

 

PROSEUCHE

American meaning: humble begging of God; praying

Hebrew Aramaic: tephillah 

PROSEUCHOMAI

to humbly beseech God; to pray

Hebrew Aramaic: palal 

We are all urged, throughout the New Blood Covenant, to pray! 

Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions.) 

1st Thessalonians 1.2: We [Paul] always eucharistoumen [gratefully give thanks] to Theos concerning you all, continually making mention of you in our proseuchon, remembering your work of pistis [faith, reliance], draining effort of agape [unconditional love] and the cheerful endurance of our Kurios Jesus, the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ], before our Theos and Father; knowing your election, brothers, you having been egapemenois [unconditionally loved] by Theos. 

1st Thessalonians 5.12: Brothers! We ask you eidenai [to know, to perceive] those laboring among you (presiding over you in the Kurios, admonishing you) and eleistha [to deem, to consider, to esteem] them most exceedingly in agape because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves! We parakaloumen [call near, invite, urge, exhort, encourage] you, brothers, noutheteite [to put in mind, to caution, to warn] the insubordinate, console the faint-hearted, care for the weak, be longsuffering toward all. See that NOT even one person returns kakon [worthless] for kakou [worthless] to anyone but always pursue the good both toward one another and toward all. Always rejoice! Continually proseuchesthe! Eucharisteite [Gratefully give thanks] in all for this is the thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree] of Theos (in Jesus, the Christos) to you. Don’t quench the Hagios Pneuma! Don’t despise propheteia! [inspired speech, prophesy] Test everything; firmly hold the kalos [beautiful, virtuous]; keep back from every form of ponerou [hurtful]. 

1st Corinthians 14.12: So also, you, since you are zelotai [zealous ones, zealots] of the spiritual to the building up of the ekklesias [assembly, church], seek interpretation in order that you may superabound. Therefore, let him, speaking in a glosse tongue, language], proseuchestho in order that he may be able to dierueneue [thoroughly explain, interpret]. For if I proseuchomai in a glosse, my pneumati [spirit] proseuchomai but my nous [intellect, mind, understanding] is empty. Then, what is to be? I will proseuchomai with the [my] pneumati and I will also proseuchomai with the [my] nous. I sing with the [my] pneumati and I also sing with the [my] nous. 

Philippians 4.4: Always chairete [be cheerful, rejoice] in the Kurio! Again, I will say, CHAIRETE! Let your propriety [decorum] be known to all men. The Kurios is near. Not be anxious about even one thing! Conversely, in everything (by proseuche and deesei [petition, request, prayer] amid eucharistias [gratefully giving thanks] to Him, let your requests be made known to Theos. Also, the peace of Theos which surpasses all intellect [understanding] will be the vanguard [scout, guide] of your hearts and your minds in Jesus, the Christo. 

Luke 11: And it was caused to be, in His being in a certain place proseuchomenon, as He stopped, one of His matheton [learners, pupils, disciples] said to Him, “Kurie! teach us to proseuchesthai, just as John bar Zekaryahuw taught his mathetas.” Now, He said to them, “Whenever you proseuchesthe, say: Our Father, the One in the Ouranois [Heavens]! Your Name hagiastheto [make holy God]! Make Your Kingdom come. Cause Your thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree] to be as in Ourano, so also upon the earth. Give us down to day by day our needed bread. And aphes [send forth, forsake, forgive] us our hamartias [misses of the mark or goal, errors, offences, sins] for we ourselves also apheilonti all indebted to us. And not carry us into testing, conversely, rescue us from the ponerou [hurtful one].” 

End of Forty-sixth Lesson